Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 17 oct 2012

  19 oct 2012

  18 oct 2012

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Events in religion

  Historical breaks, biographical constructions and collective mobilisations

  Le discours médiatique construit l’événement comme un phénomène inattendu, aléatoire, imprévisible. Il a tendance à isoler l’événement et de le traiter dans son immédiateté. Inversement, les sciences humaines et sociales ont parfois tendance à remettre en cause l’imprévisibilité (autant des causes que des conséquences) d’un événement, en recontextualisant les raisons de son surgissement et en analysant l’instrumentalisation dont il fait l’objet.

  Read announcement

• 20 aoû 2012

  Lucerne

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Ethnology

  La société suisse d'ethnologie lance un appel à contribution pour son colloque annuel qui se tiendra les 2 et 3 Novembre 2012 à Lucerne, en Suisse. Le colloque s'organise autour de cinq panels "Revisiting anthropological perspectives on sustainable development"; "Towards an Anthropology of the Durative Present"; « Nation, nationalité, citoyenneté » ; « Contrôle et surveillance dans une société globalisée » et " The Future of New Institutional Economics in Anthropology".

  Read announcement

• 06 mai 2012

  Geneva

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Flashbacks. Nostalgic media and mediated forms of nostalgia

  Can media really be nostalgic? Which specific forms of nostalgia appear in contemporary society and why? Can people be nostalgic if they did not experience the past they pretend being nostalgic of? What kind of politics of nostalgia exist? What is the impact of nostalgia on the media market and its influence on economy? Finally, given the arbitrary (?) use of the past in all its imaginable variations and cultural systems, is it still possible to use the word nostalgia or should there be a neologism describing the transformation of the past in(to) the digital era? Could it even be possible to be simply nostalgic of nostalgia; finally describing the eternal research for (lost) identity? This international conference aims to explore nostalgia as a (mass) media phenomena and also seeks for contributions that treat any other mediated forms of nostalgia.

  Read announcement

• 31 jan 2012

  Fribourg

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Professor of sociology of religions position

  Mise au concours d'un poste de Professeur-e universitaire à l'Université de Fribourg (Suisse) en science des religions ou sociologie des religions, religion contemporaine, histoire de la religion et méthodes empiriques. Entrée en fonction : 01.09.2012.

  Read announcement

• 15 mar 2012

  Sion

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Regimes of Value in Tourism: Concepts, Politics, Practices

  The conference aims to explore different concepts of value that emerge in the social field of tourism. At a general level, we can distinguish here between value as conceptualized by different academic disciplines and value as lived, expressed, and embodied by various actors within tourism as practice and social field. Tourism is often considered a profit generating industry where the utility value paid by tourists is larger than the exchange value of products (in classical terms, the cost of production using labor, capital and land). It is an important element of the conference to discuss conceptions of value in tourism that transcend a strictly economic definition. In this sense we are interested, on the one hand, in the differentiated emotional, moral and ethical cultures by means of which tourists experience attractions and assign value. On the other hand, we wish to explore how various local, regional, national, international, and transnational actors and instances capture, conceptualize and assemble economic, political, cultural, spatial value associated with touristic places.

  Read announcement

• 30 jan 2012

  Lausanne

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

  Doctoral grant (100%) and research assistant (80%) at the Haute école de santé Vaud, HESAV

  La Haute école de santé Vaud (HESAV) met au concours un poste d'assistant-e à 80% et un poste de candidat-e au doctorat à 100% (www.hesav.ch/emplois). Tous deux sont des contrats de 36 mois.

  Read announcement

• 15 mar 2012

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Shaping Heritage-Scapes

  Processes of Patrimonialization in a globalised World

  The purpose of this multidisciplinary and international symposium is to give scholars from various backgrounds and geographical areas working on the topic of heritage and museums an opportunity to meet. We propose to regard them both as part of one and the same process referred to as patrimonialization that transform places, people, « traditions », and artefacts into heritage to be protected, exhibited, and highlighted. We welcome contributions that address this multifaceted process and focus on one of its aspects : objects, arenas, sites and paradigms.

  Read announcement

• 15 fév 2012

  Geneva

  Call for papers - Sociology

  What is coalition? Reflections on the conditions of alliance formation with Judith Butler’s work

  This one-day conference aims to reflect – historically, sociologically, philosophically – on the conditions of possibility, on the objects, means and purposes of alliance formation – between minorities, with the State, political parties, and other public actors, or between disciplines, or even across species (e.g. animal-human), etc. –, of political transformation, and thus of a collective agency, in both domestic and international contexts, through the concrete and generic question of “What is coalition?” – with special interest for the ways in which critical perspectives inspired from feminist and queer theory can be made into productive tools to theorize the political at various levels, at different times and locations, but also to intervene and do better democratic work.

  Read announcement